An Atlanta attorney who represents the family of one of five Georgia Southern University nursing students killed last year when a tractor-trailer plowed into their cars said that a $14 million civil settlement with his clients may persuade the trucking industry to better police its drivers.
Render Freeman, who with co-counsel Joe Fried represents the family of Catherine McKay Pittman, said the suit by Pittman’s family “was never about the money. … It was really about investigating the trucking company and understanding the deeper story of why this particular driver was allowed to drive for this company despite a history of falling asleep at the wheel and [previously] totaling a tractor-trailer.”
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